All about Snowpool

Snowpool.org was started in 2005 to allow people with spare spaces
in their cars to find others to share the travel with.

Our view is that it's a goodly distance to drive to a ski field, so why not share the costs
and meet some new people along the way. Obviously there's the sustainability climate change angle,
but if you're motivated purely by keeping costs down, well, that's cool too!

Video - Should explain things!

Please be nice ;) It is up to
the people carpooling to organise how and where they are going to meet
etc, and how to split petrol.

Our suggestions would be:

Fill up the tank before you leave, and at the end, split the
costs evenly (plus a few bucks for tyre wear and oil ;)

We have open sourced the iOS app - you can grab it
on github.
If you're a developer and want to make it better... well, contributions are always welcome.

Design

*Snowpool usen't to be super pretty, but
with a fresh redesign by Simone Quentin De Manson, we think it's looking
pretty groovy!

Social Media

Thanks to Alison Poulter who helped out showing us how this
new-fangled Facebook and Twitter thing works ;) Also, for the previous few years we'd had a rectangular logo which facebook chopped the edges off. If you take "snowpool" and chop the ends off, well, you get "nowpoo", which isn't such a catchy name. Anyway, thanks to Alison for showing us how to get around that little roadbump and helping to get the word out.

Coding Thanks

Snowpool used to be built using PHP, but when Malc
from Wholemeal offered to help rebuild in Ruby on Rails - well, we jumped
at the chance. Many many thanks to Malc for the help.

Also, many thanks to Tim Ross who really helped massively in building the iOS app. If you want to see more of his work, checkout the AirPipes app in the App Store.